Leonard Carlitz
Leonard Carlitz (born December 26, 1907 in Philadelphia , † September 17, 1999 in Pittsburgh ) was an American mathematician .
Live and act
Leonard Carlitz attracted attention early on due to his mathematical talent and studied with a scholarship at the University of Pennsylvania (Bachelor 1927), where he received his doctorate in 1930 under Howard Mitchell ( Galois fields of certain types ). In 1930/31 he was at Caltech with Eric Temple Bell and in 1931/32 at Cambridge University with Godfrey Harold Hardy . From 1932 until his retirement in 1977 he was a professor at Duke University , most recently as James B. Duke Professor of Mathematics.
Carlitz published a total of 771 scientific articles, mostly on number theory , the theory of finite fields ( Galois fields ), commutative rings (polynomial rings), special functions and combinatorics .
From 1938 to 1973 he was co-editor of the Duke Mathematical Journal. He had 45 PhD students.
He had been married to Clara Skaler since 1931 and had two sons.
See also
- Carlitz identity , extension of Euler's theorem for triangles to tendon tangent quadrilaterals
Web links
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Leonard Carlitz. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
- Obituary in Duke's Math newsletter, PDF file (227 kB)
- Author profile in the database zbMATH
Remarks
- ↑ In his doctoral examination, when asked about Carl Friedrich Gauß's proof of the quadratic reciprocity law , he is said to have asked which of the seven proofs the examiner required.
- ↑ The planned Collected Works are estimated at 6,800 pages by the editor John Brillhart.
- ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Carlitz, Leonard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 26, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Philadelphia |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 17, 1999 |
| Place of death | Pittsburgh |